Latest Open University News

Once again this past week we’ve been busy scanning across the internet to find the latest information and Open University courses. This week we look at the Belfast degree ceremony, dementia research funding and more of the fall out from the Volkswagen story. Remember, if there’s a free course or bit of news on the agenda then hopefully we will pick it up and stick it on the next Open University news.

A Lisburn woman was one of 275 OU students who received their degrees on 2 October in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast – In the biggest OU ceremony ever held here.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn paid the price of losing his job after last week’s revelation that software designed to circumvent emission testing was installed on as many as 500,000 “clean diesel” vehicles sold in the US and as many as 11 million worldwide.